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Het privatiseringsproces binnen de telecommunicatiesector van Latijns-Amerika: een politiek-economische analyse

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Abstract

The worldwide policy of privatization and liberalization within the telecommunications sector has been adopted most intensively in Latin America: on the one hand because the privatizations were done within a relatively short period of 4 years, and, on the other hand, because privatization policies were highly influenced by the industrialized world. Furthermore, the programmes of privatization which had to reform the old structures of the postal, telegraph and telephone services (PTT), followed on a tradition of nationalization, which is why the privatization of government monopolies did not go very smoothly. Therefore the aim of this article is to reveal the main political and economic motives that were responsible for the massive privatizations of the telephone companies in Latin America in the early 1990s.

How to Cite:

Van Damme, D., (1997) “Het privatiseringsproces binnen de telecommunicatiesector van Latijns-Amerika: een politiek-economische analyse”, Communicatie: tijdschrift voor communicatiewetenschap en mediacultuur 26(3), 43–57. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/communicatie.91377